19 months

This last week my little monsters turned 19 months old. It hardly seems right. My math must be off. They can't be 19 months already.

Thursday Grandma came to stay the night. After dinner we drove around looking at houses. It was interesting. Early Friday morning we took off to the state fair. It was nice out when we got there. Not busy at all. The boys rode in their little buggies and loved it. We walked all the through everything and looked around. Got the usual looks and questions about twins. It was a great day. We left the fair after 5 hrs with boys who needed a nap. They started to drift in the car but didn't really get into deep sleep. Just as we were getting into town they both work up but I had snacks so they were happy. We once again looked at houses (in another area). Shortly after we got home the boys ate and went down for the night. Whew it was a long day.

The boys are getting faster with their climbing and more coordinated. Ethan has no problem getting on the kitchen table. He can even pull the chair out. Owen is skilled at getting behind the couch. He has even mastered lowering himself over the back feet first. At this point I am really amazed they haven't tried to get out of their cribs yet. Erick and I know it is just a matter of time and are starting to plan big boy beds.

Naps are nearly always just one a day. Thank goodness they are still 3-5 hrs so I can get things done.

Owen has started telling me bye bye and leaving a room or pushing me out of a room. The problem with that is as soon as one of us leaves he comes running to make sure I am still there or banging on the door and crying for it to be opened (even if he is the one that closed it).

In 5 short months the boys will be 2. I can hardly believe it. We are already starting to plan their birthday party. I know it sounds like we are getting a little ahead of ourselves but I don't think we have a single free day in December at all. So for right now the boys party is being planned for December 4th.

Oh I should mention before anyone gets to excited that no we are not buying a house. We are not near ready to buy a house but it is fun to look. Before we can buy we need to get rid of some of our student loan debt.

18 month check up

I don't know why I haven't posted this post yet. Oh yes I do my house is a mess because we had clarks here for spiders and bugs and at the same time the AC went out and now my washer is dying. Along with that is the fact that the boys now know and try to double team me. Ethan can climb on the kitchen table and Owen will take that moment to get into the DVDs or stand on the TV or take a disk out of the wii. Not to mention the tantrums.

SOoooo last Friday the boys had their check up. They got three shots each because a shot they got before is being phased out in favor of one that is better (it covers 13 things rather than 7). But you don't really care about that. What you want to hear is that the boys are good and growing and healthy. Well they are.

Owen
Height 31in
Weight 24 lbs 13 oz

Ethan
Height 31.5in
Weight 26 lbs 4 oz

That puts both boys firmly in the 25th percentile range. They are walking and talking fine. They met/far exceeded all of the milestones.

Zoo #2

Yesterday Erick and I decided that we needed out of the house. I looked up the weather and it said it was going to be beautiful in SF so we got ready and went. I guess I looked up the wrong site because the weather was a good 10* cooler than what I had read and the sun was only out for maybe an hour. None the less we had fun and I was able to cross something off my list

playing with the elephant statue


elephant kisses

petting zoo (yep real goats)



To view my whole list of 101 in 1001 feel free to click. This time I crossed off #62





Then and Now! The same spot in the zoo the boys at 3 months and now.




After the zoo we continued the day in SF. The boys were doing amazingly well for not having napped and we were hungry. We headed to the Rainforest and down to the Pier 39. It was a great day.

Going Bananas

There is this cool place near us that is a big building with bounce houses in it. IT isnt that expensive and you pay for the kid and the adults are free. To beat the heat and get out of the house we met a few twin mommy friends there. The boys loved the slide (after some help).













Jump, jump, jump, slide. Doesn't it look like fun?

Happy 4th of July

The 4th was a bang at our house. We had a small BBQ, played in the water and lit fireworks.

Red white and blue babies





Water babies





Ready for fireworks



I hope everyone had a great 4th!

Kisses

The boys are into kisses and love right now. They really love to love each other but it is hard to get on film. I did get the boys to give all of you kisses though.

Videos videos videos

Life keeps getting in the way of my uploading videos so here is all the videos I have that you have yet to see. Some are funny. Some are cute. Some are just because.